<p>Davey Winder reveals how to check for Gmail snoopers and to protect your account</p><p>With 350 million users, Microsoft's Hotmail remains one of the big three players in webmail, along with Yahoo and Gmail. Unlike the last two, though, Microsoft doesn't make it easy to see whether and when your email accounts have been accessed by unauthorised third parties, nor does it give any indication of who that third-party might be.</p><p>Now given that webmail is, understandably, under constant hacker scrutiny, you might be forgiven for thinking that this is an oversight. I certainly find it difficult to believe that Microsoft hasn't seen fit to add this most basic of snoop-alerting mechanisms to the service.</p><p>To make your Gmail account even more secure, I heartily recommend that you implement the two-step authentication system</p><p><a href="http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/379531/how-to-check-whos-been-reading-your-gmail">Keep reading...</a></p>